Ernie
My lover is dying. We met late, both forty-two, both Elvis diehards, both into hiking through spectacular scenery…
Death
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Science Square (Issue 149)
More Evidence that the Moon Came from the Earth Will et al. Indigenous noble gases in the Moon’s…
Dialogs in the Park
Tim and Adam work at the same office. It was Monday. They went to Central Park to have…
Editorial (Issue 147)
“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence,” the idiom goes. We tend to…
Tinge of Life
In his Twentieth Word, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, a 20th century Islamic scholar and teacher, uses an interesting phrase,…
Reboot
The morning had withheld its sunlight and left only a gray hue to open its doors when the…
Death
We woke at the thud, panicked. My wife and I had been dozing in bed, squeezing the last…
Religion: More Than Life or Life Itself?
Respect for life is more than a religious value; it is a constituent dimension of faith found in…
Life (Hayah)
Hayah, which can be translated as liveliness and being alive, means that a heart which is already dead…
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
Alzheimer’s disease is “an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, eventually even the…
Praying with God-consciousness
At the acute-care, big city hospital where I trained as a Muslim chaplain, I was called to support…
The Sacred Suffering
The human is a lone traveler in this world; we are obliged to travel for the sake of…
Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: A Different Perspective
Looking at Virginia Woolf’s contemplations of characters in “Mrs. Dalloway” and Said Nursi’s ruminations on profound inner struggles,…
Forlorn Ones
“You are a forlorn one in this worldErgo laugh not but cry o heart!” (Yunus Emre) Forlorn ones…
Sakina – Itmi’nan (Serenity and Peacefulness)
Literally meaning calmness, silence, steadiness, solemnity, familiarity, the subsidence of the waves and tranquility, sakina (serenity) is the…